Designer Control

The Majorsilence Reporting designer control can be used from a Windows Forms or WPF application (Windows-only).

dotnet add package Majorsilence.Reporting.ReportDesigner

If you are adding to a WPF application also add references to:

• System.Windows.Forms
• WindowsFormsIntegration

Call RdlEngineConfig.RdlEngineConfigInit() once at application startup before using any reporting controls. See Database Providers Howto.

See https://github.com/majorsilence/Reporting/tree/master/Examples/SampleDesignerControl for a fully working WinForms and WPF example.

C# WinForms example

using Majorsilence.Reporting.Rdl;

[STAThread]
static void Main()
{
    // One time per app instance
    RdlEngineConfig.RdlEngineConfigInit();

    Application.EnableVisualStyles();
    Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
    Form frm = new Form();
    var ctl = new Majorsilence.Reporting.RdlDesign.RdlUserControl();
    ctl.OpenFile(@"The path to the rdl file.rdl");
    ctl.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
    frm.Controls.Add(ctl);

    Application.Run(frm);
}

C# WPF Example

<Window x:Class="SampleDesignerControlWPF.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:wf="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Forms;assembly=System.Windows.Forms"
        xmlns:myctrl="clr-namespace:Majorsilence.Reporting;assembly=RdlDesigner"
        Title="MainWindow" Loaded="Window_Loaded_1" Height="auto" Width="auto">


    <DockPanel >
        <WindowsFormsHost Margin="0"  Name="windowsFormsHost1" DockPanel.Dock="Top">
            <myctrl:RdlUserControl x:Name="reportDesigner"  />
        </WindowsFormsHost>
      
    </DockPanel>

</Window>

private void Window_Loaded_1(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    System.Windows.Forms.Application.EnableVisualStyles();
    reportDesigner.OpenFile(@"The path to the rdl file.rdl");
}